Do conveyancers request an advanced payment for conveyancing in Needham Market?

Where you are retaining lawyers for conveyancing in Needham Market your lawyer will request that you to provide them with monies to cover the search fees. This will be the total of the cost of the Local Authority Search. If any down payment is payable against the total price then this will be required shortly prior to contracts are exchanged. The closing balance that is needed should be transferred shortly before completion.

My friend recommended that where I am buying in Needham Market I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?

This is a search is usually quoted for as part of the standard Needham Market conveyancing searches. It is a large report of about 40 pages, listing and setting out significant information about Needham Market around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the local Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime statistics, Needham Market Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information about Needham Market.

Are there restrictive covenants that are commonly picked up during conveyancing in Needham Market?

Covenants that are restrictive in nature can be picked up when reviewing land registry title as part of the legal transfer of property in Needham Market. An 1874 stipulation that was seen was ‘The houses to be erected on the estate are each to be of a uniform elevation in accordance with the drawings to be prepared or approved by the vendor’s surveyor…’

In my capacity as executor for the estate of my uncle I am disposing of a property in Cardiff but reside in Needham Market. My conveyancer (who is 250 miles from merequires that I execute a statutory declaration ahead of the transaction finalising. Could you suggest a conveyancing solicitor in Needham Market to witness and place their company stamp on the document?

Technically speaking you are unlikely to be required to have the documents witnessed by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally or notary public or qualified solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are Needham Market based

For various reasons I am unable to attend my Needham Market conveyancing lawyers office to sign documents connected to my conveyancing in Needham Market – is this a problem?

You need not be concerned. Needham Market conveyancing lawyers can handle conveyancing transactions for clients nationwide. You are unlikely to be required to be present a Needham Market conveyancers office. They can deal with all communications using post, email, telephone and fax.